By Robert Romano “I say, imagine in your private life, if you decided that I’m not going to pay my mortgage for a month or two — first of all you’re not saving money by not paying your mortgage. You’re just a deadbeat.” That was Barack Obama […]

By Rick Manning The official federal government report on the nation’s Employment Situation didn’t happen on Friday, and nobody seemed to miss it. Economists and others referenced a payroll report released by the paycheck processing company ADP earlier in the week that showed that the private sector had […]

By Marta H. Mossburg Back in 2009 President Barack Obama told Americans that his health care plan wouldn’t impact people who already have health insurance. As he said, “First of all, if you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctor, you like your plan — […]

By Marta H. Mossburg Until last weekend, I was unaware of the NFL’s new purse policy, which as of this season bans a bag larger than a hand except for slightly larger clear plastic bags or Ziploc-like pouches. I found out the hard way trying […]

By Rick Manning One hundred years ago, the United States economy was changed forever.  Yet, few recognize the significance of the year that Woodrow Wilson became the 28th president of the United States, the U.S. Department of Labor was formed and the Panama Canal was completed. All […]

By Marta H. Mossburg Republicans in Congress want to cut food stamps, eliciting the usual uproar from the left about callous conservatives who hate the poor. Their anger is misplaced. It should be aimed at the government whose policies have resulted in the slowest recovery […]

By Bill Wilson We told you so. As Americans for Limited Government economic analysis had previously predicted — here , here , and here — there would be no tapering from the Federal Reserve’s $85 billion of quantitative easing anytime soon. Defying market expectations that the central bank would announce […]

By Brad Tidwell The Service Employees International Union targets McDonalds in their “Fight for 15,” but the SEIU’s campaign could destroy the jobs they’re trying to unionize. As we previously discussed, the SEIU’s “Fight for 15” program is not likely to ever make it into […]

ALG Editor’s Note: This is socialism.  This is what continuing with Obama’s policies will do the United States.  The Obama War on Coal, on all productive enterprise, will lead to scenes like this throughout America if we are not careful. In the following featured report from the BBC , poor upkeep of the […]

By Bill Wilson In a revised estimate of growth in the second quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis now projects that the economy grew by 2.5 percent annualized , not the 1.7 percent previously estimated . The total revision amounted to $34.5 billion added to the Gross Domestic Product. However, it was almost entirely on account of adjustments made to the balance of trade, with imports […]